Mcilwain Surname Ancestry ResultsOur indexes 1800-1900 include entries for the spelling 'mcilwain'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 8 records (displaying 1 to 8): Buy all | | | Get all 8 records to view, to save and print for £50.00 |
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Hearing of extreme distress in Gweedore and Cloughaneely in Donegal (including Tory Island), an investigation was made by a group of clergymen, gentlemen and newspaper reporters, who found a large part of the populace (800 families) to be in severe poverty - clad in rags, barefoot, living in mud hovels, without furniture, beds or bedding, and subsisting for much of the year only by scavenging seaweed and shellfish from the seashore - beset by rapacious landlords (with their apparatus of lawyers and bailiffs) raising their rents and confiscating the mountain lands on which the poor had relied for pasture. A parliamentary Select Committee was appointed to investigate: its report includes detailed minutes of evidence of their investigations, including testimony relating to many named individuals who had coped with the local crisis and survived, or those who died, and lists of those whose cases had been looked into. The landlords rebutted any suggestion of impropriety, suggesting that when the investigation was made 'a great deal was got up for the occasion' by an inherently dirty peasantry that kept their animals in their houses, in the hope of obtaining relief money (which, to the tune of £3,200, had been received, mainly from England). Seaweed was remarkably nutritious. It was remarked that 'some of the men go to England and Scotland to earn money' and that 'a few young people emigrate yearly to join their relations in America and Australia'.
MCILWAIN. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
|  Outstanding soldiers of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot
(1870-1875)
Each year just a handful of outstanding soldiers of the regiment were chosen for good conduct medals and gratuities: these are listed here. There were two lists, one for men recommended for the Good Conduct Medal without a gratuity, and one for gratuities - £5 to a private, £10 to a corporal, and £15 to a serjeant. Both lists are indexed here, and each gives rank, name, regimental number, date of recommendation and date of issue. (The sample scan is from the 32nd foot). MCILWAIN. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Traders and Professionals in Birmingham and Suburbs
(1878)
The Post Office Directory of Birmingham with its Suburbs, edited by E. R. Kelly, and published in 1878, has two main alphabetical lists - Court and Commercial. The suburbs included are Aston, Bickenhill Park, Birchfield End, Castle Bromwich, Erdington, Saltley (with Washwood Heath), Ward End (including Little Bromwich) and Witton, in Warwickshire; Handsworth (with Soho), Harborne, Perry Barr and Smethwick, in Staffordshire; and King's Heath, King's Norton, Moseley, Northfield, Selly Oak and Yardley (including Hall Green and Stechford) in Worcestershire. The Commercial section, indexed here, lists all manner of traders, professional people and businesses.MCILWAIN. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Irish Debtors and Bankrupts
(1880)
Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender), and bankruptcies in Ireland, April to June 1880MCILWAIN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Scottish Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1882)
Protests on Bills of Exchange, Sequestrations and Cessio Bonorums in Scotland, April to June 1882MCILWAIN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Irish Debtors and Bankrupts
(1886)
Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender), and bankruptcies in Ireland, July to September 1886MCILWAIN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Scottish Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1887)
Protests on Bills of Exchange, Sequestrations and Cessio Bonorums in Scotland, July to September 1887MCILWAIN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Scottish Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1887)
Protests on Bills of Exchange, Sequestrations and Cessio Bonorums in Scotland, April to June 1887MCILWAIN. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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